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Low barrier nanomagnets have attracted a lot of research interest for their use as sources of high quality true random number generation. More recently, low barrier nanomagnets with tunable output have been shown to be a natural hardware…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Punyashloka Debashis , Rafatul Faria , Kerem Y. Camsari , Supriyo Datta , Zhihong Chen

Metamaterials are artificially created media, which allow introducing additional degrees of freedom into electromagnetic design by controlling constitutive material parameters. Reconfigurable time-dependent metamaterials can further enlarge…

Temporal metamaterials, based on time-varying constitutive properties, offer new exciting possibilities for advanced field manipulations. In this study, we explore the capabilities of anisotropic temporal slabs, which rely on abrupt changes…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Carlo Rizza , Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi

Current strategies for designing tunable locally resonant metamaterials are based on tuning the stiffness of the resonator; however, this approach presents a major shortcoming as the effective mass density is constant at high frequency.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Quan Zhang , Kai Zhang , Gengkai Hu

Probabilistic (p-) computing, which leverages the stochasticity of its building blocks (p-bits) to solve a variety of computationally hard problems, has recently emerged as a promising physics-inspired hardware accelerator platform. A…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-02 Sagnik Banerjee , Shiva T. Konakanchi , Supriyo Datta , Pramey Upadhyaya

Nano-magnonic crystals are magnetic waveguides whose magnetic parameters are modulated at the nanoscale. The super-lattice structure enables a band structure and magnonic band-gaps. Here, we numerically investigate the field tunability of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 A. Roxburgh , P. Micaletti , F. Montoncello , E. Iacocca

In neuromorphic computing, artificial synapses provide a multi-weight conductance state that is set based on inputs from neurons, analogous to the brain. Additional properties of the synapse beyond multiple weights can be needed, and can…

As artificial intelligence (AI) advances into diverse applications, ensuring reliability of AI models is increasingly critical. Conventional neural networks offer strong predictive capabilities but produce deterministic outputs without…

The architecture of mechanical metamaterialsis designed to harness geometry, non-linearity and topology to obtain advanced functionalities such as shape morphing, programmability and one-way propagation. While a purely geometric framework…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Corentin Coulais , Chris Kettenis , Martin van Hecke

Energy-efficient methods are addressed for leveraging low energy barrier nanomagnetic devices within neuromorphic architectures. Using a Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) probabilistic device (p-bit) as the basis of neuronal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Hossein Pourmeidani , Punyashloka Debashis , Zhihong Chen , Ronald F. DeMara , Ramtin Zand

Novel material properties can be realized by designing waves' dispersion relations in artificial crystals. The crystal's structural length scales may range from nano- (light) up to centimeters (sound waves). Because of their emergent…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-05 Benjamin Lenk , Henning Ulrichs , Fabian Garbs , Markus Münzenberg

Spintronic devices have been widely studied for the hardware realization of artificial neurons. The stochastic switching of magnetic tunnel junction driven by the spin torque is commonly used to produce the sigmoid activation function.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yue Xin , Kang Zhou , Xuanyao Fong , Yumeng Yang , Shenghua Gao , Zhifeng Zhu

The impressive performance of artificial neural networks has come at the cost of high energy usage and CO$_2$ emissions. Unconventional computing architectures, with magnetic systems as a candidate, have potential as alternative…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Matthew O. A. Ellis , Alex Welbourne , Stephan J. Kyle , Paul W. Fry , Dan A. Allwood , Thomas J. Hayward , Eleni Vasilaki

We propose a general framework to extract microscopic interactions from raw configurations with deep neural networks. The approach replaces the modeling Hamiltonian by the neural networks, in which the interaction is encoded. It can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Lingxiao Wang , Yin Jiang , Kai Zhou

The ability to change a surface's profile allows biological systems to effectively manipulate and blend into their surroundings. Current surface morphing techniques rely either on having a small number of fixed states or on directly driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Sawyer Thomas , Jeffrey Lipton

The present paradigm in design and modelling of lattice architected mechanical metamaterials is mostly limited to traditional numerical methods like finite element analysis. Recently, the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence…

We propose and verify experimentally a new concept for achieving strong nonlinear coupling between the electromagnetic and elastic properties in metamaterials. This coupling is provided through a novel degree of freedom in metamaterial…

Magnetic textures are central to emerging spintronic and unconventional computing technologies due to their rich dynamics, topological properties and nanoscale dimensions. A major challenge remains achieving tunable, reversible, and…

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), which are inspired by the brain, are a central pillar in the ongoing breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In recent years, researchers have examined mechanical implementations of ANNs, denoted as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Eran Ben-Haim , Sefi Givli , Yizhar Or , Amir Gat

Artificial Spin Ices are two dimensional arrays of magnetic, interacting nano-structures whose geometry can be chosen at will, and whose elementary degrees of freedom can be characterized directly. They were introduced at first to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Cristiano Nisoli